4/18/2013 - These guys will be at the Hampton Casino Ballroom with Lacuna Coil on Friday, April 19, which, along with the release of this new LP, provides ample reason to bring up Atlanta’s Sevendust, pretty much the only band out of the late-aughts Southeast nu-metal stampede to have made much of an impact, on me at least. Nine albums in, they’ve perfected their formula of death-metal part into emotive Snow Patrol part, and their heavy side has only gotten heavier: “Till Death” is outright Cannibal Corpse for half of it, a step forward (or back, depending on your tastes) from their usual mid-tempo monotone doom riffage. The whiz-bang stuff comes at “Cold as War,” featuring a percolated guitar sound that shows they’re still mildly interested in experimenting with their genre. A